PLUCKY young cancer victim Jacob Marsland, five, was looking forward to being home for Christmas after almost a month in isolation undergoing intense radiation treatment in London.

The keen Dr Who fan, who suffers from a rare and aggressive form of cancer, christened his room at University College Hospital The Tardis and festooned it with letters and cards from well wishers following an appeal in The Chronicle.

His dad Antony said he had coped well with the treatment and if all goes according to plan should be allowed to come home to Northwich this week.

“We won’t know the results until February. Its quite a long agonising wait, but at least Jacob will have a month where he hopefully won’t need to undergo any more treatment.’

Meanwhile a fund to send Jacob to America for specialist treatment continues to grow with people donating money and offering to organise fund raising events.

“The response from everyone has been tremendous,’ Anthony added. “We cannot thank everyone enough. If it continues like this we expect to have raised around £25,000 by Christmas, which is just wonderful.”

Jacob was diagnosed with cancer in March since has been in and out of hospital undergoing treatments.